10/26/2004

Scott Gibson makes his Deadstein return as we finagle 2 drummers at Carroll's.

A crazy night before the
lunar eclipse happened at Carroll's when of all things Scott Gibson
entered the room with his triumphant Deadstein return. It surprised
many of us but the great thing was how it all worked out because Scott
came to really just hand out but because we were moved to the bigger room
we were able to hop-scadaddle a drum set from another studio so Scott was
able to play the double drummer with Mitch throughout the whole
night. It was a really good experience to play Deadstein with two
drummers again. It sounded good and it seem to give Coffee a bit
more leeway to try things that he had the freedom to try with Scott
keeping the backbeat. This was strongly apparent during the
Estimated Eyes.

Carroll's is still under construction and the $6,000
soundproof doors don't do their jobs without doorknobs, so they put us in
the big room away from the poor orchestras that were rehearsing around
us. This proved to be the big break that ultimately allowed Scott to
play with us. They first put in some non-Twin amps in the room which
were obviously not acceptable but they rectified that
situation. They also use SM57s instead of 58s which prevented
the PA from sounding as good as it should have. That was a situation
they couldn't rectify and was a bit annoying. Nevertheless, if you
got on top of that 57 you could get a sound out of it.

Accept for the aforementioned Scottso showing up,
there were no other guests. There was some one who screamed in the
room half way through the night saying we were great and requesting a
Terrapin. I was having a tough night mentally keeping my mind on fundamental
structure, but good tone and inertia kept me going. In addition I
made a few too many bad decisions on leading the band through changes and
end of jams for which I apologize.

Trister had the big lead in Comfortably Numb at the
end of the night which was helped by us jamming on it at the beginning of
the night. He can do some impressive guitar stuff on that
song. His guitar was sounding great.

The Red Sox took the
third game in a row against St Louis in the world series and are poised to
break the 84 year curse on not winning the series. They broke the
curse the next night, the night during the lunar eclipse. I
had Paulies Pizza on the way home and also finished the water that was in
my car that I lost during the previous jam.